Improved washing-machine



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SQUIRE GAMBELL, OF OTISOO, NEW YORK.

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 45,990, dated January24, 1865.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, SQUIEE GAMBELL, of Otisco, in the county ot'Onondaga and State ot' New York, have invented a new and ImprovedOlotlies-VVashing Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full,

` clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilledin the art to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this speciiication, in which-Figure l is a vertical section of my invention, taken in the line x x,Fig. 2 and Fig. 2 a front View ot' the same, partly in section.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a new and improved clothes-washing machine;and it consists in the employment or use of a'suspended oscillatingsuds-box of semifcylindrical form, in connection with a xed orstationary dashboard attached to the suds-box, and with -or without awash-board, all being arranged in such a manner as to operate veryefficiently and without injuring1 the clothes.

A A represent two uprights, which are attached to suitable bases, B B,and connected by cross-bars a a, and O is a semi-cylindrical sudseboxformed of two semicircular sides, b b, with a seinicireular bottom, c ofzinc or other material, attached to it. This suds-box is suspended bypivots d between the uprights A A, and to one end ofthe suds-box thereis secured a cylindrical bar, e, to serve as a handle. To the uppercross-bar, a, ot' the uprights A A there are secured two pendants, D D,which extend down within the suds-box O, and have a board, E, securedhorizontally to their lower parts. rated with holes j and its lower edgejust clears the bottom c of the suds-box, and its endsjust clear thesides ofthe latter.

Vithin the suds-box at the end where the handle or bar c is secured orattached, there is placed an inclined wash-board, F, iiuted orcorrugated like the ordinary hand washboards, and below the lower end ofthe washboard F there arc placed, one above the other,

This board E is perfo-- a series of horizont-al slats, g, as shownclearly in Fig. l.

The suds-box is supplied with a requisite quantity of suds, and theclothes to be washed are placed within the suds-box between the board Eand the horizontal slats g. The sudsbox O is then oscillated and theclothes intermittingly compressed between the board E and slats g, thewater or suds passing, as it is compressed from the clothes, betweentheslats g and the perforated board E. By this arrangement'the clotheswill be thoroughly washed without danger of being` injured or torn, andthe work done in a thorough manner.

To the lower part of one upright A there Y.

is attached by a pivot-bolt, h, a bar or lever, G, the opposite end ofsaid bar working in a guide, i, attached to the other upright, andhaving a rod, j, secured to it, which extends up by the side of theupright. This bar or lever G has an upright lip, k, which, when the baror lever Gr is held up, by fitting the upper end ofthe rod j, which isbent in hook forni, in a hole in its uprights A, serves as a stop forthe suds-box and holds the same in an inclined position, projections lon the exterior of the bottom of the suds-box catching against the lipk. tions may be attached to the suds-boX in order to hold the same in amore or less inclined position, either to rub clothes by hand 0n theboard F or to allow the suds to escape from the suds-box through a hole,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. The oscillatingsudsbox A, provided with the horizontal slats g and wash-board F, incombination with the fixed or stationary dashboard E, all arrangedsubstantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The pivoted bar G with upright lip 7L', attached in connection withthe projections l, one or more, on the exterior of the suds-box, for thepurpose specified.

Vitnesses: SQUIRE GAMBELL.

JOHN C. HrrcHcocK, Jason G. FRENCH.

Several of these projec-

